Month: November 2020

Inferences

ambivalent

austere

emulated

collaborated

decorum

English Practice

C

B

D

E

E

A

Inference

buy an indoor plant.

dumping water on pretend fires.

how she used to suffer under its corrupt government.

Writing

George Bernard Shaw’s quotation contrasts people whose curiosity is limited by reality and people whose curiosity can change their reality.

Sentence Comp>

parked in a reserved spot.

a religious service.

the widow’s husband.

without modern amenities for years.

copying the way she dresses.

appearing uninformed.

were rude to the waitstaff last time.

the war.

Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

A. not known
B. the p>C. in a state of knowing
D. flesh eater
E. p>F. again in the flesh

I think, therefore I am.

last flesh eating

cognitive
cognition
recognize
carnival
incarnate
carnage
carnelian

Words in Context

evoke, unctuous, postulated, heinous, impeccable

Sentence Comp>

wearing makeup.

murder and robbery.

of the extensive drought.

paintings and sculptures.

robbing the bank.

her home country.

forgetfulness.

Words in Context

emulate, collaborate, contrite, impound, magnanimous

frowsy, expatriate, enhance, sere, inane

Critical Reading

B

D

C

D

Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

A. having some characteristics of time
B. breaking as a result of
C. cap>D. ordered by time
E. story of time
F. break back

there were no telephones in Caesar’s time.

broken up.

fraction
fracture
fragment
chronicle
chronology
synchronize

Inference

go near the pigpen.

had trouble keeping track of how far they’d moved.

enlist the help of artists.

Sentence Comp>

the zookeepers started putting them in separate cages.

he was feasting while they had no bread to eat.

work at any station on the production line.

were able to stop working overtime.

arrested the wanted man.

rations to his surviving crewmembers.

his ticket sales to skyrocket.

transform into any organ the patient needs.

move to warmer territory.

a six-year-old child to an eighty-year-old man.

she was cheating on him.

invited them over.

confused world war one and two.

got into a physical fight.

his unexpected absence.

Words in Context

extrovert, abhorred, duplicity, effigies, gamut

abated, austere, droll, decorum, doled

propagated, protean, journeymen, belied, glib

Imp>

D

G

B

Writing

I think both phrases are completely compatible; most of our lives, we are operating off habit and impulse, which direct our conduct without our own conscious thought.

Sentence Comp>

he didn’t want it to get wet at swim practice.

victim’s claim.

Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

A. belief in ideas
B. lead away
C. give to
D. belief in the objective
E. a hole leading from one p>F. give forgiveness

antidote, duct

decade, decimate

reduce, product, produce, educate

Inference

the mother lit a piece of paper on fire and let him watch it burn.

food and shelter.

leaving and coming in waves.

Words in Context

intern, affront, lobbied, transpose, rend

Sentence Comp>

their uninsured house burned down.

the ice cream truck drove down their street.

the period in the middle ages when it was built.

very talented.

covering herself in mud.

gave them the remainder of her rations for the day.

lived out the second half of his life in a mansion.

could have died.

have enough food to last the day.

execute the prisoners.

it was made out of metal, not clay or stone.

it showed up on his doorstep.

she graded her students so unfairly.

Words in Context

culmination, destitute, ambivalent, intrepid, sardonic, concur

demure, erudite, dilemma, demagogue